RAPID: Collaborative Research: Understanding At-Risk Adolescents' and Parents' Daily Experiences During COVID-19

尽管COVID-19大流行对社区及个人产生深远影响，但其对高危青少年的影响可能尤为广泛及明显。该RAPID项目将研究高危青少年及其父母在新型冠状病毒大流行后的最初时间段内如何经历COVID-19。该研究将比较COVID-19爆发期间青少年的睡眠、社交技能、社会关系质量、压力、情绪、物质使用、心理健康症状、身体健康、心理社会发展、外化行为和犯罪。该项目还将研究青少年监禁是否加剧了COVID-19对青年成果的潜在影响。该项目将对处于风险中的青少年（涉及正义，低社会经济地位）进行纵向研究，以解决单亲父母对如何应对COVID-19大流行并受其影响。这项研究将使用多种方法，包括自我报告、间接报告、合作缓刑部门的官方记录、电子每日日记报告和活动记录仪技术，以评估青少年和父母在应对COVID-19大流行时对各种结果的功能变化。调查结果将表明，在应对这一流行病的过程中，处于危险之中的青年人面临着身心健康风险。此外，这项研究将为青少年拘留设施和缓刑部门在危机时期提供最佳做法，以确保青年继续获得重要的康复服务，同时维护青年、法律的行为者和社区成员的健康和安全。结果将有助于在全球紧急状态期间对弱势青年群体的需求，风险和潜在保护因素的有限现有知识基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

While the COVID-19 pandemic has far-reaching effects on communities and individuals, its impact on at-risk youth may be particularly pervasive and distinct. This RAPID project will study how at-risk adolescents and their parents experience COVID-19 in the initial time period following the novel coronavirus pandemic. The research will compare adolescents’ sleep, social skills, social relationship quality, stress, mood, substance use, mental health symptoms, physical health, psychosocial development, externalizing behavior, and delinquency across the COVID-19 outbreak. The project also will examine whether juvenile incarceration exacerbates the potential impact of COVID-19 on youth outcomes. The project will engage in a longitudinal study of at-risk (justice-involved, low-SES) adolescents to address how adolescent-parent dyads respond to and are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research will use multiple methods, including self-report, collateral report, official records from the partnering department of probation, electronic daily diary reports, and actigraph technology, to assess changes in adolescents’ and parents’ functioning on a variety of outcomes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings will evince physical and mental health risks in response to the pandemic among at-risk youth. As well, the research will provide best practices for juvenile detention facilities and departments of probation in times of crises to ensure that youth continue to receive important rehabilitative services while maintaining the health and safety of youth, legal actors, and community members. Results will contribute to the limited existing knowledge base on the needs, risks, and potential protective factors of a vulnerable group of youth during a global state of emergency.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.